Honest question: why not fight it at night? Would be cooler with the sun down, and the target glows in the dark to the naked eye. No light no problem? I’m sure it’s more complex than that
In the 1970s, the US halted aerial firefighting activities at night due to cost and safety concerns. I know some states made narrow exceptions, but not sure about California. A good read on this www.airmedandrescue.com/…/nighttime-firefighting
How does this practically work? Russia fires all the executives, replaces them with their own and redirect the profits? No impact to the remaining employees?
Probably something like that. Heck, probably most of the local executives are Russian, so they were probably in on the government take over. Now they are running the company for Putin. Danone and Carlsberg deserves to have their operations taken over since they decided to continue to run their business in that company.
This article is from September of last year. Is this still a thing? I cancelled my Twitter account around that time last year and rarely used it when I had it.
Article seems super right wing. Maybe just stop the right from stealing from the people. I applaud them for saying hell no to BS reforms and pressures to impoverish the populous. I’m cheering for the kids with the jerry cans.
BBC is generally centre leaning left. But I see where you are coming from. I think this article does provide balance to the many articles talking about police brutality by showing what these riots, which were not about reforms, can do to a community.
You’ll also note the the journalist does not really spin anything here: they use the verbs “to say” and “to tell” when giving quotes. There are no opinions provided by the journalist. It does not sensationalise anything. If I wanted to spin this story, I would have worded the lede like this:
Zartoshte Bakhtiari hasn’t slept more than three hours a night since the violent riots erupted in France a week ago.
I think if anything there is a tiny note of French-bashing here, for lack of a better term. It really shows that they shot themselves in the foot and now mayors are petitioning for heightened security.
I think now is a good time for a friendly reminder; political left & right can vary drastically by nation, they can be similar but don’t expect labels to line up perfectly (confederative is a good example of a changing definition across nations). When it comes to the tone of the article though, I think you hit the nail on the head. In my experience, the BBC has some bias when reporting on other nations, especially if they were once a British colony (seriously yikes). I’m not surprised they’re doing a little French bashing, it’s kind of an old habit for the British lol.
None of the “kids with the jerry cans” are doing any of this because of reforms. The riots have very real consequences for already neglected communities seeing their libraries, schools and local businesses burning down. Are you confusing the riots with the protests earlier this year about the pension system reforms?
I don’t know how it works in New Zealand, but in the US fruit is weighed for cost. The plastic bags don’t really weigh anything, but imagine if you have cloth then that could add to your cost. Of course you could just take the fruit out, but what if you bought 10 separate apples (which I do a lot) or something like that? There’s probably a work around. I’m just not aware.
The official government guidance discusses that. It’s illegal to charge for weight of packaging under the weights and measures act, so they’re encouraged to program in known-bags and empty/tare customer provided bags.
I’ve started just throwing all my produce loose in my basket / shopping bag at the checkout. I’m gonna rinse it all when I get home anyway. There are exceptions of course
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